I can't say there's been much improvement personally. maybe professionally? hard to tell sometimes. i've been turning into a curmudgeon. that grumpy old guy who thinks his way is the right one. only problems is my way generally IS the right one. we can keep making the same mistakes over and over again and the only one who sees that: "hey, guess what we've tried this before and it didn't work then why would it work now?"
this is not sarcasm by the way. when you work for someone who has never read "if you give a mouse a cookie" and hasn't learned real leadership skills or for that matter real management skills either, then you have a recipe for disaster on many nights. not the least of which is our employee turnover with floorstaff and the serious morale problems in there. the sense of family we used to have is a much lamented thing of the past.
and yet we still do this every weekend...
as far as the crowds go, we've also had issues over the last few months that just keep getting worse as they are ignored. catering to one certain group of customers over an other because of the genre they like while still expecting to hold the rest of the customers in the building has been a nightmare. I have tried to explain it but they've gotten so single minded with their version of what customer service is that i'm having to constantly apologize to customers complaining about the music and why i'm playing such "boring and depressing music no one can dance to".
AND THAT'S FROM THE COUNTRY CUSTOMERS!
still, I haven't had much choice but carry on and suck it up. they still turn the lights on after 2 and continually pull the rug out from under the customers who are dancing and having a good time. i'm getting booed on a regular basis for telling them that the party (that we advertise is going to continue til 3) is over even though they're having a good time. financially the closing early has hurt me - and by extension the other employees - substantially. about $5,000 a year for the last 2 years for me alone. leads back to that morale problem again....
morale. mine is in the toilet personally speaking. if I get started here on that personal side I might not stop. having low blood sugar while typing this probably isn't helping a great deal. I dream of her constantly and it takes serious effort to get her off my mind to function both at "home" and work. suffice it to say that i'm still a wreck.
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a couple hours later...
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downloading, installing, sync'ing, and otherwise putting this laptop together so I can attempt to be slightly more productive. spent too much on it but the alternative was spending even more. still might if this doesn't work out well.
wonder if it read this as I was typing it in and got nervous?
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